Culture
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Thessaloniki’s Jews: ‘We can’t let this be forgotten; if it’s forgotten, it will die’
Five centuries after they were expelled from Spain and eight decades after they were almost annihilated in the Holocaust, the…
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What the West can learn from Ukraine’s treatment of Soviet monuments
KYIV — Before Ukraine declared independence in 1991, statues of Vladimir Lenin were an inescapable part of the landscape. Veronika…
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Why imposter syndrome hits women and women of colour harder
Self-doubt and imposter syndrome permeate the workplace, but women, especially women of colour, are particularly likely to experience it. Why…
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Canceling the Cancel Culture: Enriching Discourse or Dumbing it Down?
Depicting colleges as hotbeds of intolerance, Donald Trump threatened to remove their tax-exempt status if they don’t stop engaging in…
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Erdogan Is Erasing Ataturk’s Stamp On Turkey
Under normal circumstances, the most important news out of Turkey last weekend would have been a new law that, critics…
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New NGO to operate China’s Confucius Institutes, ‘disperse misinterpretation’
The move will better facilitate Chinese language teaching overseas and disperse the Western misinterpretation that the organization served as China’s…
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‘Final frontier of Australian archaeology’: Drowned artefacts reveal first underwater heritage sites
But in a fresh example of the tension between heritage and industrial values in the region, these cultural riches are…
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Arts industry to receive $250 million coronavirus rescue package from Federal Government
Creative industries had been calling for more support after coronavirus shut down venues and productions and led to widespread job…
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There’s Nothing Exceptional About Any Country
They’re all wrong, and the sooner we get over this nonsense, the better. Andreas Kluth Bloomberg Pundits have recently proclaimed…
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9 tips teachers can use when talking about racism
Education is a powerful took for creating change. So, it’s important teachers don’t shy away from difficult conversations in the…
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Tearing down statues reveals problem but no solution
It is just a stack of rocks, in the tradition of a Scottish cairn, next to the highway that Lidia…
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Was there slavery in Australia? Yes. It shouldn’t even be up for debate
Scott Morrison asserted in a radio interview on Thursday morning that “there was no slavery in Australia”. Thalia Anthony and Stephen Gray…
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War in the newsroom: when journalists prefer silos to the marketplace of ideas
American journalists are under attack — not just on the streets where they are being targeted by police but within…
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Juukan was not alone: The true extent of WA sites sacrificed for the sake of the almighty dollar
The news that the Juukan rock shelters were destroyed by Rio Tinto brought the plight of Aboriginal people wanting to…
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Three-quarters of Australians biased against Indigenous Australians, study finds
Seventy-five per cent of Australians hold an implicit bias against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, a study has found.…
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